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- Iran's WAVE of hypocrisy - and Ambassador Prosor's response
- 12/18 Links Pt2: Lying About Israel, Penn State Drops ASA, ASA to Boycott the USA?
- Gaza floods cause terror tunnels to collapse
- The Sderot rocket collection
- 12/18 Links Pt1: PA Leader- We Supported the Nazis in WWII, Syria’s rattlesnakes commit suicide
- A new Jew-hater salute (poster)
- US now hints Assad can stay for a while
| Iran's WAVE of hypocrisy - and Ambassador Prosor's response Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:00 PM PST From the Washington Free Beacon: The United Nations overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday to adopt an Iranian and Syrian authored resolution that calls on nations across the globe to denounce violence and extremism. The resolution was co-sponsored by these notable human rights champions: Algeria, Azerbaijan, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Syria and Venezuela. And, for some reason, Italy. The divergence between how Iran acts and what the resolution says is remarkable. For example, while Iran heavily limits Internet access for its people, the resolution Recognizes the positive contribution that the exercise of the right to freedom of expression, particularly by the media and new technologies, including the Internet, and full respect for the freedom to seek, receive and impart information can make to the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and reiterates the need to respect the editorial independence and autonomy of the media in this regard;While Iran's state media recently published a call for the world to declare war against all the world's Jews, this resolution Strongly condemns any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence;Israel's ambassador Ron Prosor, using is usual mix of humor and facts, pointed out the stunning hypocrisy to a General Assembly that will never listen: The Iranian theocracy has presented a resolution that is riddled with hypocrisy. By putting forward this resolution, Iran seeks to ride the WAVE towards international legitimacy. But Iran's aspirations cannot be allowed to drown out the cries of its people who are victims of a regime that pretends to be progressive, but is in truth tragically regressive.           |
| 12/18 Links Pt2: Lying About Israel, Penn State Drops ASA, ASA to Boycott the USA? Posted: 18 Dec 2013 04:00 PM PST From Ian: Israelophobia "Israelophobia," on the other hand, is steeped in centuries of anti-Semitic stereotypes, but it has now taken on an intense life of its own, often rich in contemporary fabrications -- for example, that historically Jews have never lived in Jerusalem; that IDF soldiers harvest the organs of Palestinians; that the "wall of separation," built to keep out terrorists, is a form of apartheid -- and through these falsehoods gushes forth a hatred for Jews. Israelophobia is a block of hatred crystallized around a piece of land, around an idea. Anti-Zionism today, from Malmö to Qom, arises and multiplies entirely from prejudice against Israel: many of its most vicious critics have never even set foot in the state.Barry Rubin Lying About Israel About 10-20 slanders (at least) are issued against Israel each day. They are frequently complete fabrications and from academia, media, or accusations mostly made up out of whole cloth. Lying is either simply reported irresponsibly or with participation in the "big lie." Institutions and personal careers are benefitted by such moves.Why are European powers (and Oxfam) funding a radical Israeli group? As is the case in all democracies, the IDF is an organ of the state, not a political decision-maker. If the goal of Breaking the Silence was simply to clean up the Israeli military, it wouldn't be such a problem. Instead, the aim is to "end the occupation", and on this basis it secured its funding.StandWithUs Counters Anti-Israel Posters "The anti-Israel ads distort facts. They presume there once was an Arab country called "Palestine," when in fact no such country ever existed. Conversely, there has been a continuous Jewish presence in the land of Israel for three millennia, and the League of Nations recognized the Jews' historical connection to the land, which is why it carved out the Palestine Mandate as the Jewish homeland," explained Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs.Former Senate Intelligence Staffer Urges Jonathan Pollard's Release, Offers Expert Testimony Boston University international relations professor Angelo Codevilla, who was a senior staffer on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee at the time of the arrest of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in 1985, wrote a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama calling for Pollard's release and offering to give expert testimony on Pollard's behalf.Jeffrey Goldberg: Some Lessons in Effective Scapegoating Still, this vote by the ASA marks something of a turning point -- this is the second time this year that a U.S. academic organization has called for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. I assume the ASA won't be the last group to do so. And I believe that we will one day see groups such as the ASA call for the boycott of American institutions and individuals who support Israel. Such a campaign would represent a logical extension of the boycott ratified this weekend. Yes, a boycott of businesses owned by pro-Israel American Jews would have a special odor about it, but really, doesn't the ASA boycott have something of the same smell?How ASA Became RASA (Racist American Studies Association) So let us make sure that the same ugliness the RASA leadership's actions have caused do not get swept under the carpet when they show up all smiles to the next academic group insisting that everyone follow their example. For RASA must now become the poster child for how an academic organization destroys itself when it decides to place their own hypocritical, fanatical partisanship above the needs of everyone else.With Israel boycott in the bag, American Studies Association trains sights on the U.S. (satire) So to make things right , says Dr. Marez, the ASA National Council has indentified and purged those responsible – including at least one relative of a high ranking ASA official — for committing what is being called "an error of half-hearted measures." The scholars group is promulgating a follow-up Resolution in Support of an Academic Boycott of the United States, which among other things calls for universities around the world to cut all ties with institutions of higher education in the U.S., withdraw sabbatical hospitality for U.S. professors, and prohibit international students from studying in the United States. The resolution further calls upon the ASA to change its name and academic discipline to something slightly less triumphalist and historically insensitive.How can these U.S. universities justify membership in American Studies Association after Israel boycott? Many of these universities, or their affiliated printers, also provide financial support for ASA through advertising and exhibiting at Annual Meetings.Penn State Harrisburg to drop American Studies Assoc membership after Israel boycott Penn State Harrisburg will be dropping its institutional membership.The ASA's assault on academic freedom When ASA members left the overtly pro-boycott environment of the conference – where academics lobbied in favor of the resolution throughout the weekend while distributing lollipops – those in favor of the resolution lost supporters. They wound up with approximately 820 votes in favor of the resolution, as compared to the more than 850 people they claimed signed it at the event. In contrast, without any form of institutional support, without a Caucus to promote academic freedom, without a table to distribute oppositional viewpoints at the conference, and with the National Council's refusal to distribute or post on its website alternative perspectives, approximately 420 people either voted against the resolution or voted to abstain. This is hardly an overwhelming victory for BDS. Instead, it indicates the takeover of an established professional association by leaders committed to ideology over the type of intellectual exchange and complexity that were at the heart of the ASA's original aims.Ambassador Dermer: Academic boycott of Israel 'a travesty' "The singling out of the Jewish state for boycott is no different than the many attempts throughout history to single out Jews and hold them to a different standard," Dermer wrote on his Facebook page.Honest Reporting: HR Letter Published in The Guardian Mandela preached reconciliation for South Africans while the Palestinian leadership preaches incitement and hatred towards Israel. Calling Israel an "apartheid state" is an insult to the millions of black South Africans who suffered under that system. South Africa can be grateful that a man of Mandela's stature came to lead its people to a better future. Sadly there has never been a "Palestinian Mandela." Having produced morally reprehensible leaders of the calibre of Yasser Arafat and Hamas, no wonder the Palestinians find themselves in their current predicament.New CST report on antisemitic discourse in Britain slams the Guardian In fact, CST devoted an entire section of their 21 page report to the Guardian, noting that "in 2011, the Guardian faced more accusations of antisemitism than any other mainstream UK newspaper." Specifically, CST focused on an article by Chris McGreal characterizing US government support for Israel as "slavish" and a widely condemned 'chosen people' slur by columnist Deborah Orr.BBC's 'Hardtalk' featured in CST report on antisemitic discourse The Community Security Trust (CST) recently published a report titled 'Antisemitic Discourse in Britain in 2012′. On page 20 of that report, under the chapter heading "Jewish conspiracy and the 'lobby'", the CST cites an edition of the BBC programme 'Hardtalk' from May 2012 as an example of the propagation of the age-old concept of the supposed power of an American 'Jewish lobby'.ADL's Foxman on Farrakhan's Defense of Kanye West: His Anti-Semitism Gets Worse With Age In an interview about his commercially messianic "Yeezus" album, Kanye West said "black people don't have the same level of connections as Jewish people," to which Foxman and the ADL responded that those types of comments were exactly what fuels anti-Semitic tropes.'Anti-Fascist' Hacker Exposes Supporters of French Anti-Semite Comedian Dieudonné An anonymous "anti-Fascist and pro-Israel" hacker has exposed the email addresses and identities of thousands of online supporters of the French comedian Dieudonné, known for his film, 'The Anti-Semite,' which was banned from the Cannes Film Festival last year, according to an online report and interview with the hacker by France's Metro News on Tuesday.Anti-Israel Hate Speech and Slander at the University of Michigan On December 10, thousands of University of Michigan students in various dorms across campus woke up to a mock eviction notice from the University of Michigan Housing Department.One Year After Newtown, Magen David Adom Lauds New White House Initiative Currently, U.S. first responders are not allowed into incident sites until it can be verified that any perpetrators don't pose more danger. MDA, on the other hand, sends medical personnel wearing protective gear to treat victims before the area has been secured. The Obama administration announced on the one-year anniversary of the massacre in Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School that it is now advocating a similar approach.How Jewish immigrants stirred up fashion Down Under Rags-to-riches stories in the schmatte trade aren't new. But the 100 narratives, including that of Bloch, presented in the Sydney Jewish Museum's exhibit "Dressing Sydney: The Jewish Fashion Story" (through December 31, 2013) offer some new wrinkles in addition to the typical refrains. Some of those unique aspects to Sydney's Jewish fashion story relate to Sydney's climate and landscape.Israeli data pioneers named as finalists for CeBIT 2014 Two Israeli companies — SangamTech and SQream Technologies – have been selected among the 50 big data startups to vie for the CODE_n14 contest set to take place at CeBIT in March 2014.      |
| Gaza floods cause terror tunnels to collapse Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:30 PM PST Palestine Press Agency reports that a Gaza family's house is uninhabitable because it was damaged during the flooding in Gaza last week.  However, the damage wasn't directly from the rain or flooding. It was because under the house, unbeknownst to the family, was a Hamas terror tunnel that collapsed. The house, which housed 45 members of an extended family including 20 children, saw parts of its ground floor fall a meter and a half into the ground. Engineers hired by the family confirmed that there was a tunnel underneath the house. But when they complained to Hamas, the terror group held them financially responsible for tearing the house down. This wasn't the only tunnel uncovered by the rain. Today I spoke with the person in charge of the Kerem Shalom crossing, and he told us that there were several visible tunnel collapses in the area from the rain. (More details of that interview to come.)      |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST I always wanted to see this for myself. At the Sderot police station there is a collection of hundreds of Gaza rockets that have landed in that town over the years. Here is a panorama photo of some of them. Click to enlarge.  On the left side is a glass case of more notable rockets, like the ones that have the name of the terror group painted on them, or some of the larger Grad missiles. Nowadays most of the rockets are more "professionally" made - calling them "home-made rockets" is less appropriate than it used to be. The now rusting Sderot rockets are more of a lesson as to what lengths terrorists would go to in order to target Jews. Many of the rockets are clearly made out of pipes meant to help Gaza's water issues.      |
| 12/18 Links Pt1: PA Leader- We Supported the Nazis in WWII, Syria’s rattlesnakes commit suicide Posted: 18 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST From Ian: Israel, Palestine, and Democracy Democracy and demography have become the main arguments for creating a Jew-free Arab state in Judea and Samaria. Israel's presence in the territories deprives Palestinians of their democratic rights, the argument goes, and if Israel does not give the Palestinians whatever territory they demand, it will have to choose between its democracy and its Jewishness.Judea and Samaria Land Targeted in Coordinated Palestinian Effort, Israeli Officials Say Senior Israeli Civil Authority officials warned Tuesday that Palestinian Arabs are engaging in a coordinated effort to take over Israeli-owned land in Judea and Samaria, and that senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials may be involved in the effort.NGO: Government Burying Levy Report, Hounding Settlers The Regavim movement, an NGO watchdog group for Jewish national property rights, accused the Israeli government Wednesday of ignoring the Levy Report, filed by a committee that was headed by retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, which determined that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are legal. In the current state of affairs, Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs receive clear preference in Judea and Samaria land disputes, not having to prove land ownership, Regavim charged.A One Way Run I'm a runner. And I live in what Brown would call Palestine and what I refer to as Judea. I agree that it is a beautiful and challenging place to run.Harriet Sherwood audaciously suggests that Palestinians have abandoned terror Beyond the statistical evidence contradicting Sherwood's specific claims, it's hard to understand how anyone covering the region as long as she has could possibly come to the conclusion that Palestinians have in any way abandoned terrorism. In addition to the Palestinians' glorification of terrorists, a comprehensive report on Arab public opinion by Pew Global in September demonstrated that "support for suicide bombing and other violence aimed at civilian targets is most widespread in the Palestinian territories". A staggering 62% of Palestinian Muslims, per this poll, believe that such attacks "are often or sometimes justified in order to defend Islam from its enemies".BBC website replaces article on shooting of Israeli soldier with 'last-first' report In other words, an editorial decision was taken to replace a serviceable report on an incident which was sparked by the deliberate shooting and killing of an Israeli soldier on Israeli territory with a headline which initially informed audiences only that "Israeli army shoots Lebanese soldiers".Focus Turns to Growing Hezbollah Control Over Lebanese Army, After Deadly Cross-Border Killing of Israeli Solider American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Michael Rubin had already noted as early as 2010 that it is "an open secret among Lebanese of all political stripes that Hezbollah has infiltrated the Lebanese Armed Forces," an assessment that came in the wake of years in which Israeli military officials had warned over exactly such Hezbollah efforts. Analysts increasingly fear that the Iran-backed terror group is now seeking to provoke Israel into a conflict. Hezbollah's brand as an anti-Israel group has been shattered by its participation in the Syrian conflict on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime, and it may be looking to ignite a confrontation in order to begin rebuilding that image.Yaalon: Lebanese Army Will Place Shooter on Trial "This is a serious incident and the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army are responsible for this," he declared, adding that there had been a meeting on Monday between the liaison officers of the Lebanese army and the IDF, attended by members of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), during which the Lebanese army reported the findings of its investigation of the shooting incident.Palestinian Leader Farouk Qaddumi: We Supported the Nazis in WWII Egypt Arrests Terrorist Involved in August 2012 Border Attack Egypt's military has arrested a jihadist suspected of involvement in an ambush that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers near the border with Israel last year, an army spokesman said Tuesday, according to AFP.Prince Charles: 'Muslims Persecuting Christians' The Prince of Wales visited the Egyptian Coptic Church in Stevenage, north of London, and the Syriac Orthodox cathedral in west London. In talking with church leaders, accompanied by Prince Ghazi of Jordan, Charles heard tales of massive persecution following the 2011 "Arab Spring."Terra Incognita: Syria's rattlesnakes commit suicide The Syrian Civil War is similar: An ostensibly democratic fight against a tyrannical regime is being undermined by ideological Islamist extremism. Western governments are cutting off aid, as they did to Spain's Republic, and Syrian President Bashar Assad is drawing on foreign soldiers, as Franco did. As in Spain, brigades of "international volunteers" are coming to fight.The Israeli intelligence officer who really knows what the Iranians are talking about In north Tel Aviv, at IDF Military Intelligence headquarters, one young, Iranian-born Israeli officer, who spent his days interpreting raw intelligence on the Persian desk, could only laugh. After all, that very quote, lifted from Ayatollah Khomeini, had been carefully painted by the regime on the side of the Jewish elementary school he attended in northern Tehran. "It's the reason I'm sitting here," he said in an interview.With Geneva, Military Force Only Remaining Option to Stop Iranian Nukes In other words, at best, we have lost a year — if not two or three — to bring the regime around to the hard choice of abandoning its nuclear weapons program. Given Iran's ability to become a 'break-out' nuclear power in a matter of mere months, we no longer have a year to spare.Iran FM Signals Intent to Restart Negotiations, After Analysis Predicts Tehran Bluffing Over Talks Suspension Analysts who assessed that the Iranians need the financial relief provided by Geneva – and are bluffing when they threaten to walk away from the so-called Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – will be better positioned to suggest they were largely correct. Iranian negotiators had abruptly halted talks after the Treasury Department last week announced new enforcement measures against entitled in violation of still-existing sanctions against Iran, asserting that the move violated the "spirit" of the JPA. It is not clear why the Iranians believed that gestures toward the spirit of the JPA would have diplomatic of public purchase, inasmuch as Tehran has in recent weeks committed to enriching uranium, bolstering its plutonium production complex, and testing ballistic missiles – all actions which it insists are permitted under the letter of the JPA.Saudi Arabia Prince Shakes Hands With Former Israeli Diplomat, Slams U.S. Mideast Policy Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia reportedly met with Israeli officials at the World Policy Conference in Monaco on Sunday.Senior Saudi diplomat slams Iran nuclear deal, says Kingdom may be forced to act alone Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al Saud, the Saudi ambassador to Britain, expressed his frustration at the West's lack of interference in Syria and the United States' new deal with Iran.Iranian Analyst: Without Deal, Obama to Kiss Khamenei's Hand to Prevent Israel's Annihilation Iran Reveals New Details of Shoulder-Fired Missiles According to the report, Iran's military places great emphasis on shoulder-fired missile launchers because of the ease of carrying the weapon in the field and because most of Iran's anti-aircraft artillery are fixed units and lack firepower.Turkish PM says territories of Balkan countries belong to Turkey Greece rose to its feet as it reacted to comments made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the Turkish territory included the Greek part of Thrace, parts of Macedonia, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonian Utrinski Vesnik announced.Turkey leads the way for states suppressing media As of December 1, there are 211 reporters, editors and bloggers imprisoned by state governments, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in its 2013 report. That number is down from 2012′s record high of 232, but still represents the second-highest figure by a fairly large margin. Before 2012, the highest recorded number of journalists behind bars worldwide was 185 in 1996.      |
| A new Jew-hater salute (poster) Posted: 18 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST From YNet: The right hand and its fingers are stretched downwards along the body, while the left hand performs a "salute" movement on the opposite arm. Sound like an aerobic exercise for beginners? According to anti-Semitism researchers, it is actually a clear anti-Semitic symbol, a modern Nazi salute, spreading among Jew haters across Europe. Meryl Yourish asked me to make an appropriate poster starring the French Jew-hating "comedian":       |
| US now hints Assad can stay for a while Posted: 18 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST Yes, the Obama foreign policy is now officially worse than Jimmy Carter's: Western nations have indicated to the Syrian opposition that peace next month talks may not lead to the removal of President Bashar al-Assad and that his Alawite minority will remain key in any transitional administration, opposition sources said.The only consistent thread is that the US policy is now consistent with Iran's foreign policy objectives.      |
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